Columbia bus riders might get one more year of free fares, as the Columbia City Council will hear a proposal on Monday to suspend the fees through September 2026.

Go COMO has been operating fare-fee since 2020 because of an emergency declaration made in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the City Council continuing the policy every year since.

Go COMO provides six bus routes, which mostly operate along a handful of major thoroughfares in the city. The agency provides about 524,000 passenger trips annually, according to a draft 2025 study by the Columbia Area Transportation Study Organization.

The last full year that the city collected fares was fiscal year 2019, when $247,322 was generated from fixed route revenue. The full fare cost at that time was $1.50 per person.

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